SolduHow to sell your things before a move
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Moving day doesn’t move. Everything you don’t want to pack has to be sold, given away or hauled off before then, and the last week is always busier than you think. A little planning turns that pile into money instead of stress.
1. Start earlier than feels necessary
Big things take longer to sell than small things, and pickups take time to arrange. Start listing a few weeks before you move, while you can still wait for a good offer. The closer you get to moving day, the less patience you’ll have.
2. Sort into four piles
- Keep: what’s coming with you.
- Sell: furniture, electronics, bikes, tools, decor and anything else in good shape that someone would pay for.
- Give away: things worth less than the effort of selling them.
- Toss: anything broken or worn out. Check your city’s rules for large items.
3. Sell the big pieces first
Couches, dressers, tables and beds need a buyer with a truck and a free afternoon. Post them first. Keep using them until pickup day if you need to, and say so in your post: “Available for pickup from the 20th.”
4. Say when it has to go
Put your last pickup date in every post. Buyers understand a move, and a clear date helps the serious ones decide.
5. Group your pickups
Instead of meeting buyers one at a time all week, offer a few pickup windows, like Saturday morning and Sunday afternoon. Ask buyers to confirm a time in writing. For tips on meeting safely, see How to meet a buyer safely for a local pickup.
6. Have a plan for what’s left
A few days before you move, decide what happens to anything unsold: a lower price, a free pickup post, a donation drop-off or a junk removal service. Deciding early means you won’t be making that call while carrying boxes.
How Soldu helps
When you’re selling a lot at once, answering every message gets old fast. With Soldu, you make one link for each thing and paste it under your post. Buyers open it in a browser and make an offer. You see the three highest offers in one place and say yes when you’re happy. There’s no countdown, so you decide when, and if a buyer doesn’t show up, you can move to the next offer in line with a tap. Read more in What to do when a buyer doesn’t show up.
Soldu is free to start, with 3 new links a month. If you’re clearing out a whole home, Soldu Plus, an optional monthly subscription, keeps up to 30 links open at a time and lets you put several things on one link, each taking its own offers.
Quick checklist
- Start a few weeks before moving day.
- Sort into keep, sell, give away and toss.
- Post the big pieces first.
- Put your last pickup date in every post.
- Offer a few pickup windows.
- Decide what happens to anything left.
